I am just an old gal, with some time on her hands, and loose thoughts from time to time... Wife, mother of 8, grandmother of 20 and great-grandmother of 21

Monday, October 17, 2005

Reading the Sunday paper

Reading the Spokesman Reviewyesterday was interesting..

See, on the front page of the comic'swas OPUS which tells the story as weknow it here local in Sandpoint, andothers know it across the nation. Weseem to think it is just here.

I wondered where the OPUS cartoonistlived that he thought the housing marketwas so wild. For those who don't getthe SR, it was a cartoon of selling ahouse, a battle over selling a house,that wasn't for sale, and then whenthey finally sold it against theirbetter judgment, they wonderhow they were going to replace thehouse. The long and short of it, as thecartoon was ending, the house wasone of those that you see in people'sback yards that little girls have.

I have Dish so I get the New Yorkstations, (local wasn't available atthe time) and one of the ads isabout how their mayor is runningfor re-election, was trying to getlow cost homes for the new owners.And the kicker line was, housinglow enough for New Yorkers tostay New Yorkers. Sound familiarwhere you are at?

Also in the Region section on page2 was a map of Earthquakes in Idaho,I had to laugh. Now for all youCalifornians, this is tongue in cheek.

See the top two areas were in thesouth east corner of Idaho andwhat appears to be Hayden,and Bonner County area. See,we knew we had too many Ca.people move here. They not onlybrought their high price housingbut they brought their earthquakestoo!

3 comments:

Ouch, Cis some of us didn't move up here to take advantage of the area, but to simply live a simple, worth while life and to have a safer place to raise our children. At least that was my motives. Although you are right there are many CA's who moved up here to take advantage and with them brought many of the problems some of us were trying to escape. After the growth here in Post Falls since we moved here eight years ago, I'm almost ready to sell my place and move further into seclusion. Only I can't aford to now. My husband and I agreed when we meet in High school that we would some day move north. I swore after growing up in the school system there that I would not raise my children there. I will also add that I moved up here because we couldn't get good jobs there nor could we aford to live, let alone buy a home there.

Cis...I've loved Bloom County for years. They ran a comic strip about "going vegetarian"...and pretty soon all of them were hanging upside down from a tree limb, afraid to step lest they kill a bug, afraid to breathe lest they kill a microbe, and on and on. And I thot that "housing market" thing Berke Breathed came up with in the comic strip was right on the mark.

I see you've added a couple little tidbits to your blog...the hit counter and the other little thing. It's kinda fun to do stuff like that.